HNN112 Study Guide - Final Guide: Physical Therapy, Relate, Dietitian

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OPTIMISNG PATIENT OUTCOMES
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ILO 1: DESCRIBE THE ROLE OF THE NURSE IN PATIENT ASSESSMENT AND THE
NURSING PROCESS
For a nurse to perform a proper patient assessment, they need to be thinking critically.
CRITICAL THINKING in nursing practice is a discipline specific, reflective reasoning process that guides a
nurse in generating, implementing and evaluating approaches for dealing with client care and professional
concerns (pages 197-202).
In the clinical setting, critical thinking involves using specific knowledge and the nursing process to consider
a persos partiular situatio ad ake liial judget aout hat to do i that otet.
NURSES…
- Use knowledge from other fields
- Deal with change in stressful environments
- Make important decisions
SKILLS…
- Reflection
- Creativity
- Critical analysis
- Reasoning (inductive, from specific info to general; deductive, from general info to specific)
- Clarifying
ATTITUDES…
- Independence and interdependence
- Fair-mindedness
- Insight
- Intellectual humility and courage
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Perseverance
- Confidence
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THE NURSING PROCESS
The nursing process is a systematic, rational method or planning and providing nurse care.
Its purpose is to identify a persos health are status ad atual or potetial health proles, to estalish
plans, and to meet identified needs and to deliver specific nursing interventions to address those needs.
PHASE
DESCRIPTION
PURPOSE
ASSESSING
- Collect data
- Organise data
- Validate data
- Document data
To establish a database about the
patiets respose to health oers
or illness and the ability to manage
health care needs.
DIAGNOSING/
PROBLEM
IDENTIFICATION
- Analyse data
- Identify health problems, risks and
strengths
- Formulate diagnostic statements
To idetif a patiets strengths and
health problems that may be
prevented or resolved by
collaborative and independent
nursing interventions.
PLANNING
- Prioritise problems/diagnoses
- Formulate goals/desired outcomes
- Select nursing intervention
- Write nursing interventions
To develop an individualised care plan
that specifies goals/desired outcomes,
and related nursing interventions.
IMPLEMENTING
- Reassess the patient
- Deterie the urses eed for
assistance
- Implement the nursing interventions
- Supervise delegated care
- Document nursing activities
To assist the person to meet desired
outcomes; promote wellness; prevent
illness and disease; restore health;
and facilitate coping with altered
functioning.
EVALUATING
- Collect data related to outcomes
- Compare data with outcomes
- Relate nursing actions to patient
goals/outcomes
- Draw conclusions about problem status
- Continue, modify or terminate the
patiets are pla
To determine whether to continue,
modify or terminate the plan of care.
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